On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:25:15 +0100, MrCheerful
wrote:

On 23/08/2019 11:51, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Mate has just had his brand new camper van stolen from outside his house.
Luckily, it has a tracker, and they located it about 3 miles away. Lots of
damage done to the electrics and so on. But they obviously managed to
drive it away, without the keys. So much for immobilisers.

Would a crook lock thingie or wheel clamp have made any difference in
these days of battery angle grinders?


The Thatcham approved steering wheel 'Disc-lock' certainly will slow
them down a lot, and is pretty well protected against an angle grinder.

+1

Coupled with an alarm with pager it will keep away most thieves.

Yup. The object of the exercise is to make it as difficult for them as
possible (you won't stop them) so they expose themselves as long as
possible, increasing the chance of getting seen / caught etc.

I would not bother with the old krooklok style locks as they are very
easy to remove and make an ideal tool to break the ign. steering lock.

Yup.

Even locking a folding seat forward onto the wheel (with a decent lock
/ chain etc) will deter most hoping to just drive it away.

Anything 'different' has a greater deterrent effect than stuff they
know and have practice on / with.

Even parking your car on your drive facing inwards is 'advised'
apparently to slow their exit and might also give a better picture of
their faces on your CCTV?

Ex bosses wife saw a caravan go past them (in the opposite direction)
that looked very much like theirs, only to find it was theirs when
they got home soon after. I think it actually got recovered (because
they got onto the Police quickly).

I wonder why more people don't put big security code letters (partial
CRiS) on the tops of their caravans / motor homes? Make them much
easier to spot from the Police helicopter and a bit more difficult to
sell on / hide.

Cheers, T i m